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Is Rooting still as essential as it used to be?
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this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2023
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I keep my Android phone rooted because there's specific functionality that I use daily that's a pain to do without root.
It's not my primary phone so the fact that it's 3 years out of date in order to preserve my root doesn't bother me. But if it was my primary phone I'd probably look into workarounds to avoid needing root.
On modern A/B devices, Magisk can preserve root through OTA updates. The procedure is:
Not always. I tried that on my last OTA for my Pixel 7 and got locked out until it finally booted from slot_a after being off a while. Failed update.